Three 6 Mafia’s DJ Paul hopped on Twitter again Monday (June 25) to unleash a tweet calling rappers untalented, desperate and a whole bunch of other insults.
“Plz Dont Call Me A Rapper! Its Embarrassing To Be A Rapper These Days! Rap Music Is A #ShitShow Now! No Talent, Targets, Thirtsy, Hungry, Desperate. SMH #MakeRapGoodAgain,” he wrote.
He later followed up on his thoughts with comments to TMZ, explaining how he felt about Hip Hop’s current crop of rappers.
“Rappers are extra, extra lazy. They don’t want to write no raps, they don’t want to write no hooks. They just want to keep remaking stuff and that’s fine … If we’re going to remake something, we gotta put some originality in it. We gotta do something different, because if we don’t, Hip Hop is gonna die,” he stated.
Paul also noted he considers this era of Hip Hop to be in real trouble. “To me, this is the worst state that Hip Hop has ever been in.”
Still, Paul did commend Kendrick Lamar for doing something unique, adding, “That’s probably like 1% of Hip Hop right now. Everybody else is doing the same thing. We gotta find originality or it’s gonna die.”
Paul also accused rappers of stealing from Three 6 Mafia, which he said is fine, as long as he gets paid.
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Is he wrong?
He’s right, and 3-6 are one of the most influential hip hop groups ever, so he has the right to say it. I’d say it’s closer to 80% of hip hop is trash right now, but that’s the way it’s always been. The industry is just way more crowded now
PLEASE LOOK AT THE ALBUMS THAT CAME OUT IN 1993… THE GOLDEN ERA….
hip hop DX should actually do an article / video / entire show on this year… 36 Chambers and Midnight Marauders dropped on THE SAME DAY… .please please look at this list of legendary albums… it even shocked me.
February 3 – Brand Nubian In God We Trust
February 9- Digable Planets Reachin’ (A New Refutation of Time and Space)
February 16- 2Pac Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z…
February 23- Naughty by Nature 19 Naughty III
March 9 Geto Boys Till Death Do Us Part
March 23 Ice-T Home Invasion
March 30 LL Cool J 14 Shots to the Dome
Onyx – Bacdafucup
April 6 The Beatnuts Intoxicated Demons
May 4 – Run-D.M.C. Down with the King
Masta Ace SlaughtaHouse
April 13 Mobb Deep Juvenile Hell
May 18 Guru Guru’s Jazzmatazz, Vol. 1
May 19 The Roots Organix
May 25 Big Daddy Kane Looks Like a Job For…
May 31 Mac Dre The Best of Mac Dre
June 1 Bone Thugs-n-Harmony Faces of Death
June 4 Biz Markie All Samples Cleared!
MC Lyte Ain’t No Other
July 20 Cypress Hill Black Sunday
July 27 Fat Joe Represent
August 1 8Ball & MJG Comin’ Out Hard
August 10 Ultramagnetic MCs The Four Horsemen
August 17 Scarface The World Is Yours
August 24 Tha Alkaholiks 21 & Over
September 21- De La Soul Buhloone Mindstate
September 28- KRS-One Return of the Boom Bap
Souls of Mischief 93 ’til Infinity
October 12 DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince Code Red
Salt-n-Pepa Very Necessary
October 19 Black Moon Enta da Stage
Eazy-E It’s On (Dr. Dre) 187um Killa
Erick Sermon No Pressure
October 26 Too Short Get in Where You Fit In
November 9 A Tribe Called Quest Midnight Marauders
Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
November 10 E-40 Federal
Too Short Greatest Hits, Vol. 1: The Player Years, 1983-1988
November 16 Das EFX Straight Up Sewaside
MC Ren Shock of the Hour
Queen Latifah Black Reign
November 23 Snoop Dogg Doggystyle
Del the Funky Homosapien No Need for Alarm
December 7 Ice Cube Lethal Injection
3-6 was guilty of everything he is blaming new rappers for. Repetitive simplistic lyrics with recycled 808s
lol I hear that argument. But they created their own sound over twenty years ago which people still copy to this day. More importantly, Lord Infamous was one of the first emcees to use the triplet flow, and I don’t have to tell you how influential that’s been.
False….rappers today aint winning grammys and double plats
I agree wit ya on the first part but it definitely wasnt always 80% trash think about it 90s rappers had soundtrack songs along wit awesome albums now r&b singers rap better than rappers once again it wasnt smh always 80% trash
If I hear one more auto tuned Lil piece of shit rapper say “ya, ya, ya” in their songs I’m gonna flick the fuk off.
DJ Paul is doing a hip-hop version of eating his dead, just like P.
He aint wrong….it may be appealing to the dumbasses of society which unfortunatley is the majority….but the other problem with the majority dumbasses of the world is they are fickle as fuck once they are done they are done and the problem with them all bein sheep watchin one another is they all quit it at the same time do i have any idea what the fuck the next thing that will fascinate them is? Hell no but i know if hiphop dont evolve its gonna die with this generation rap will become the blues jazz or show tunes both which were huge in their times but they are all 3 almost non existent in todays society due to refusing to change or challenge their own styles evolve and give new versions of their music instead of the same tired shit from artists to artists album to album the problem is the markets so saturated with these dumbass lil yachtys and shit that the majority dont see nothing else its all these idiots with face tats and a different bottles of hairdye every month flooding the market because the labels keep cloning all these fools making their money off them and throwing them to the curb just like the fuck was his name? Desiggner or some shit where did he go?
“Lyrical genius DJ Paul” – No One
DJ Paul the Southern Trap version of Kanye. Amazing producer. Subpar, overrated and boring rap skills
Look at the country. The president kidnapping kids and shit. It’s reflective in the terrible music
People are patently incapable of doing so. Our music is full of mumbling retards flowing about nothing. Our movies are basically the same thing over and over. Our sports have been hijacked by overpaid stars who’d rather take the easy way out. The leadership of our nation has been handed to an egomaniacal trust fund baby with no ability or experience. No wonder 33% of this country is on anti depressants.
#preach. ??
I’M A 90’S BABY. JUST STARTED LISTENING TO SCARFACE THE RAPPER. TALENTED GUY BUT DUDE SOUNDS LIKE SOMEONE IS PUNCHING HIS STOMACH WHILE HE’S IN THE BOOTH SPITTIN.
He has a point BUT lets not act like 3-6 mafia and DJ Paul were some great rap group putting out dope music when they were making music, lol….
They actually were. LOL.
They were great. They were one of the greatest and they brought alot to the game. The game wouldn’t be the same if it wasn’t for 3six
I like 3-6 and all and I’m not saying they were bad…….they were not and I repeat NOT GREAT!
If u was noticed in the 90s u had talent the two best was living so if u could have put pac and big music on pause for a minute it was talent not only dat 3 6 came with a great movie along with the music so hey..u do da research
from the creator of such revolutionary poetry titled slob on my knob
dont listen it’s for teens they go to college & move on
Krizzle dropping gems
100, but do somethin about it
Choices III and Black Fall II would be a good start
late 90early 2000 southern rappers fathered all these wack rappers nowdays
FACT!
that’s not cool man let’s make a thuged out CD and pull these lyrics out them boys man smok 1 support my music and lyrics uncle josh c-LIFE sound cloud one LUV free C-murda campaign
Speaking the absolute truth! Never was a fan of Three 6 Mafia, but completely agree with the comments. I’ve felt this way for about 20 years now and it seems the “rap” game gets worse year after year. Watch these clowns popping up “talking about rap is still dope, you just have to look for it”… lmao.
he is deam right!, any motherfucker saying the 3 6 wasnt that great didnt even listen to them, you can go back right now and check on those beats, flows and trips and they are better then any of this days bullshit, and they are the ORIGINAL ones
i havent listen to this day any fucking beat that has that hipnotic trans effect that was on every dj paul song, a horror movie athmosphere no shit
Try some Ryan Upchurch.
Uou crazy. That’s the best group ever
That’s an extremely bold claim, Juicy J
Ryan Upchurch is best musician alive. Not just a rapper but way more. Definitely not lazy.
DJ Paul’s early career revolved around stealing shit from Squeeky and Zirk outta here with that shit
Triple 6 have been an artform to the rap game ever since they started for the simple fact that they have always had there own style so get outta here with that shit u said
I grew up on 3 6 and they were a big inspiration but c’mon…”slob on my knob like corn on the cob” ? That doesnt take much thought..lol
I hear you. They never were lyrical monsters. I never was a fan of Three 6 but they definitely had they own style tho, that is for sure. I don’t think it matters what veteran rapper is saying it, as long as it’s being said. It just ain’t cool to be a rapper anymore, dudes is all corny and dress HELLA gay. Bunch of CLOWNS running around making a complete mockery of the art. The elements of hip-hop don’t even exist anymore and that’s why it’s considered dead by many headz. If you a TRUE fan and was born in the 70s/80s. you’ll know it’s a damn shame!
32 million albums sold. name 1 artist the days that will come close to those numbers
32 million albums sold. name 1 artist these days that will come close to those numbers
There was a point in time where you could look at all the credits of three 6 mafia catalog and even see 70 percent of the their content is sampled.
Not tryna down Paul cuz I love three 6. But before you think about how people rip off your content off, consider how much you sampled other musicians.
CHURCH CHURCH CHURCH CHURCH!!!
Check out Ryan Upchurch’s latest album SuperNatural.
The kid is saving hip-hop/hick-hop all by himself. And he’s one hard working mofo.
10 LPs in 3 years!